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02786aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 9FB1202C462211E9A3F20F6897128E48 003 SILO 005 20190314012734 008 180706s2018 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1843845083 020 $a 9781843845089 035 $a (OCoLC)1043458787 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d KSU $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR311 $b .W37 2018 082 04 $a 821.1093628 $2 23 100 1 $a Warren, Michael J., $e author. 245 10 $a Birds in medieval English poetry : $b metaphors, realities, transformations / $c Michael J. Warren. 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b D.S. Brewer, $c 2018. 300 $a ix, 259 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Nature and environment in the Middle Ages 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index. 520 8 $a Birds featured in many aspects of medieval people's lives, not least in their poetry. But despite their familiar presence in literary culture, it is still often assumed that these representations have little to do with the real natural world. By attending to the ways in which birds were actually observed and experienced, this book aims to offer new perspectives on how and why they were meaningful in five major poems -- The Seafarer, the Exeter Book Riddles, The Owl and the Nightingale, The Parliament of Fowls and Confessio Amantis. In a consideration of sources from Isidore of Seville and Anglo-Saxon place-names to animal-sound word lists and Bartholomew the Englishman, the author shows how ornithological truth and knowledge are integral to our understandings of his chosen poems. Birds, he argues, are relevant to the medieval mind because their unique properties align them with important religious and secular themes: seabirds that inspire the forlorn Anglo-Saxon pilgrim; unnamed species that confound riddling taxonomies; a belligerent owl who speaks out against unflattering literary portraits. In these poems, human actions and perceptions are deeply affected by the remarkable flights and voices of birds. 650 0 $a Birds in literature. 650 0 $a English poetry $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English poetry $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Birds in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00833090 650 7 $a English poetry $x Middle English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710964 650 7 $a English poetry $x Old English. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710965 648 7 $a 450-1500 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Nature and environment in the Middle Ages. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017022738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9FB1202C462211E9A3F20F6897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search